A mash up of a sketch by artist Emmy Cicierega of Portal 2's mute protagonist Chell sitting in bliss on her trusted weighted companion cube as the faint sounds of rain and Portal 2 soundtrack exclusive Exile Vilify (by The National) wash over her.

Way back in 1985, I built my original domino row building
out of Lego.
I thought it would be neat to have some video of it to post on YouTube, but
of course, the original machine was long disassembled. So this gave me
reason to pull out the old ...

When a friend asked Swedish software engineer Linus Åkesson to take an old electric organ off his hands, Linus agreed, as long as he could do anything he wanted to it, and what he did is incredibly impressive.

IN 1999, legendary theoretical physicist Hans Bethe
delivered three lectures on quantum theory to his
neighbors at the Kendal of Ithaca retirement community
(near Cornell University). Given by Professor Bethe at age
...

Recently, someone for a list of the best science fiction books of all time. Being a fan of sci-fi, and wanting to expand my own reading list, I thought it would be helpful to tally the results and preserve them here for future reference.